Use Google Fit

Get started with Google Fit

With Google Fit, you can measure, track, and store your fitness information. It's available on your computer, mobile devices, and Android Wear devices, so you can access it just about anywhere. Here are some things you can do:

Set goals around personal fitness

Automatically measure how close you are to reaching those goals

See what kinds of activities you perform daily and how long you do them

Compare your activity over time to see how you’ve improved

Keep and view data from other fitness apps you’ve connected to Google Fit

You’ll need a Google account to get started with Fit. To access Fit on your computer, visit fit.google.com.

Fit comes pre-installed on most Android Wear devices. If Fit isn’t already installed, you can download and install Fit on a phone you’ve paired with your watch. After it’s installed on your mobile device, Fit will automatically work on your Android Wear device.

To get started with Google Fit on the web, visit fit.google.com and sign in with your Google account.

You can use Fit on the web to view fitness information you already tracked through Fit or another fitness app. You won’t be able to automatically track new activities through the website, but you can add them yourself.

Enter your profile & fitness goals

You can fill out profile information like your height, weight, and gender, and set a personal fitness goal. Note: To see the distance you've gone and how many calories you've burned, you'll need to fill out your height, weight, and gender.

Track your fitness activity

You can track your walks, runs, bike rides, and more on Google Fit. For example, you can see how many steps you took or how long you rode your bike, played soccer, or went skiing.

What you can measure

When you record an activity, most of the time you can see estimates of:

Time: How long you did a specific activity.

Steps: How many steps you took.

Calories: How many calories you burned.

Distance: How far you walked or ran. This feature doesn't work with stationary biking right now.

See your connected apps

Disconnect an app from Google Fit

If you don’t want your other apps to share data with Fit, you can disconnect them.

Open the Google Fit app .

Tap Menu Settings ​.

Under "Google Fit data," tap Connected apps.

Find the app you want to disconnect. You may need to use the Down Arrow .

Tap the app then tap Disconnect.

Add & edit fitness activities

You can manually add activity to your Google Fit activity history or edit an activity that’s already there. You can also add goals, log your weight, and more.

See your activity

Once you set Google Fit to start tracking your activity, you can use the app, your Android Wear watch, or the website to see how close you are to reaching goals. You can also compare your activity with previous days.

See what you’ve done today

When you open the Google Fit app, your key fitness activity will display at the top of the page. This includes estimates of active minutes, steps taken, calories burned, and more. If you don’t see a summary of your activity:

Information on Google Fit cards

If you don’t want to see the information on a card, you can temporarily hide it. To do this, swipe the card away:

Open the Google Fit app .

Tap Menu Home.

Find the card you want to hide.

Swipe the card to the left or right.

The card will not appear again until there’s new information for it to show.

Note: The card will re-appear when it has new information to show. For example, if you enter a new weight measurement, the weight card will reappear. Or if you have a new longest run, the longest run card will reappear.

Fit may show a card which compares your activity to others in a town or city. The city displayed is based on recent locations where you’ve used Google Fit. It’s not based on information you provide to any other app.

If you log your weight on Google Fit or a connected platform, you may see a card showing your weight. It will show:

Dots, which show specific weight measurements you entered.

A trendline, which is an intelligent average of recent weight data. It’s meant to give a better idea of how your weight is changing over time.

Hide the weight card

Swipe away the weight card to temporarily hide it. To swipe it away, touch the card and swipe to the left or right.

Note: The card will re-appear when a new weight measurement is entered. You can swipe to hide it again.

See all your activity (your timeline)

Open the Google Fit app .

Tap Menu Timeline.

Tap a date to see more details on your activity on that day.

Note: when you view your activity on Fit, you’ll see activity you tracked while doing it, activities you added manually, activities from third party apps that you have linked to fit, and activity automatically detected by Fit. Fit may detect activity wrong. If you find activity which you think is wrong, you can edit your activity history.

Set a personal fitness goal

You'll have a default goal to be active for one hour a day when you first get started with Fit. You can edit this goal and set yourself multiple goals

After you've tracked your activity for a few days, you'll also see recommendations for future goals.

Set a goal on your mobile device

Open the Google Fit app .

In the bottom right corner of the screen, tap Add .

Pick a pre-set goal or create your own.

Follow the instructions to set up your goal.

When you’ve set it up, Google Fit will show your goal cards and send you notifications with your progress against your goal.

Change a goal

Open the Google Fit app .

Tap Menu Home.

Find the card showing your progress against the goal you want to edit.

Tap More Edit goal or Delete goal.

Start a 30-day fitness challenge

If you have an Android Wear device, you can set up and track 30-day push-up, sit-up, and squat challenges using Fit.

Start a challenge on your watch

If your screen is dim, tap the screen to wake up the watch.

To go to your list of apps, press the power button.

Android Wear 2.0 and up: Press the power button.

Android Wear 1.9 and below: Swipe left.

Tap the type of challenge you want to start.

Tap the difficulty level you want.

Choose your challenge type

You can choose from three different challenges.

Push-ups

Sit-ups

Squats

Choose your difficulty level

You can choose Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced challenges. Fit will use this to build a program to help you get stronger and do more exercises over the next 30 days. Here's the starting point for each level:

Use Fit on Android Wear devices

Install and use Fit on Android Wear

You can also use Fit only on your Android Wear watch. But you won't be able to see as much information or track as much of your activity. To learn more about how to track your fitness and manage your Google Fit settings, visit the Google Fit help center.

Pairing Fit on Android Wear with a mobile device means your watch and phone will share data and you will get more features. Extra features include counting distance moved and calories burned, tracking workouts in real-time, auto-tracking of strength exercises, and third-party data linking.

Your phone and watch will share Fit data as long as:

The app is installed on both devices.

Both devices are turned on.

Your watch and phone are within a few feet of each other.

Even if the two devices go out of range of each other, the data will automatically sync when they're back in range.

Note: If your watch is disconnected from your phone, it can only count steps, not time.

Turn off all cards from Fit

Track steps and set daily step goals

Fit estimates how many steps you take throughout the day. You can set goals around how many steps you want to take every day. You can then check your watch to see how close you are to reaching your goal.

Note: The watch may take up to three reps to show a count. It should detect most of your reps with proper form. If you find the watch is missing a significant number of reps, check your exercise form.

Choose your challenge level

Each exercise has beginner, intermediate, and advance challenges. These are levels which set you goals for number of reps to complete each day. The goal will increase as you get stronger over the course of the challenge.

If you aren't sure which level you are, start with beginner. The starting number of reps for each level are:

Challenge

Beginner

starts at

Intermediate

starts at

Advanced

starts at

Push-ups

5

10

20

Sit-ups

5

15

25

Squats

15

25

35

Check your heart rate

If your watch has a heart rate sensor, you can speak or use the menu to check your heart rate.

Note: The heart rate functions are not medical devices and are intended for information purposes only. Please be sure to consult a physician before beginning a new fitness or nutritional program.

Navigating Fit

Check how long you’ve been active: You can touch a summary of the day’s activity in the center of the screen.

Browse summaries of past days’ activities: To see how many steps you’ve taken or how long you’ve been active on a past day, scroll down the app’s front page.

Get details of a past day’s activity: To get a more detailed breakdown of your activity on a specific day, double-tap the day’s activity summary.

Manage Google Fit settings

With Google Fit, you can keep all your fitness information tied to your Google Account and share it with the other apps and devices you use to stay healthy. When you want to check in or get insights about your activities, all you need to do is open Google Fit.

Remember, the fitness data in Google Fit belongs to you. You can grant apps access to use the data and add to it, and at any time revoke that access from the Google Settings app. You can also delete the data stored in Google Fit at any time.

How apps share data on Google Fit

Connect your apps

Before you connect an app to Google Fit, Google will ask if you want to allow this app to store new data to Google Fit and view data you’ve already stored in Google Fit.

By allowing an app or device to store data, you’re letting it save information to your Google Account on Google Fit. Only some apps store data and when they do, any other apps or devices that you’ve given permission to view data can use that information that they’ve stored in your Google Fit account.

By allowing an app or device to view data, you’re letting it use information saved to Google Fit by other connected apps.

Once it has permission, a connected app can access information in your Google Fit account from any device where you have it installed. This means that if you install an app on a device after giving it permission to connect to Google Fit on another device, it’ll automatically be connected to your Google Fit account.

Data that Google Fit stores

Activity information is data about your physical activity. It may include step count, calories burned, and speed, for activities like running, walking, or biking. When you allow an app to view activity information, that app can view all activity information stored in Google Fit, including information collected and stored by Google and other apps.

Location data is information about where you are and where you have been. This will also allow the app to use location data to indicate things like how far you've run, or how blazing fast you were cycling. If you permit an app to view your location data, that app can use the location data stored in Google Fit by other apps.

Body sensor information is data about your physical condition, such as heart rate and weight, collected by body sensors. When you allow an app to view body sensor information, that app can view all body sensor data stored in Google Fit, including information stored by other apps.

Apps connected to Google Fit share and use this information in one of two ways:

Usually, apps allow other connected apps to view fitness data that they have stored in Google Fit (such as step counts or time spent running).

Sometimes, an app might store data that only it can access. In these cases, information that the app stores isn't available to other connected apps.

View & disconnect apps

You can use the Google Settings app to see and disconnect apps or devices connected to Google Fit.

If at any point you want to stop Google Fit from collecting data, you can disconnect your apps and devices by following these steps:

Find Google settings in one of these places (depending on your device):

A separate app called Google Settings

In your device's main Settings app , tap Google.

Under "Services," tap Google Fit.

Select the app or device that you wish to disconnect.

If you disconnect an app from Google Fit, it will be disconnected on all devices where that app is installed. Disconnecting an app will not delete any data that the app stored in Google Fit.

Delete your Google Fit history

To delete the information your apps and device have stored in Google Fit, follow these steps:

Open the Google Fit app .

Tap Menu Settings.

Scroll down and tap Delete history.

On the next screen, tap Delete history.

When the dialog box pops up, check the box for “I understand and want to delete.”

Tap Delete.

Deleting your history will only remove saved information from your Google Account. Other apps or devices might have similar data stored in their own services, and you’ll need to use their settings if you want to delete that information.

Solve issues you might be facing

Fit isn't tracking activities correctly

Walking, running, and biking detection isn’t perfect on Fit. Your device’s sensors may record information differently than other devices do.

Seeing an activity you didn’t perform: You can edit or delete it.

Activities differ between your watch and your mobile device: Try moving them closer together so they can sync.